Who among the following was the first person to link capitalism with imperialism?

Who among the following was the first person to link capitalism with imperialism? Correct Answer Lala Lajpat Rai

The correct answer is Option 2, i.e Lala Lajpat Rai.

• Lala Lajpat Rai was the first to link capitalism with imperialism— “imperialism and militarism are the twin children of capitalism”.
  • Lala Lajpat Rai was an Indian writer and politician, outspoken in his advocacy of militant anti-British nationalism in the Indian National Congress (Congress Party) and as a leader of the Hindu supremacy movement.
  • He became a follower of Dayananda Sarasvati, the founder of the conservative Hindu society Arya Samaj.
  • During World War I, Lajpat Rai lived in the United States, where he founded the Indian Home Rule League of America (1917) in New York City.
  • He returned to India in early 1920, and later that year he led a special session of the Congress Party that launched Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi’s noncooperation movement.
  • Imprisoned from 1921 to 1923, he was elected to the legislative assembly on his release.
  • In 1928 he introduced the legislative assembly resolution for the boycott of the British Simon Commission on constitutional reform.
  • Shortly thereafter he died, after being attacked by police during a demonstration in Lahore.
• Dewan Chaman Lal as the first general secretary of the All India Trade Union Congress was founded on  October 31, 1920.
• The prominent Congress and Swarajist leader C.R. Das presided over the third and the fourth sessions of the AITUC.
• Other leaders who kept close contacts with the AITUC included Nehru, Subhas Bose, C.F. Andrews, J.M. Sengupta, Satyamurthy, V.V. Giri and Sarojini Naidu.